Month: November 2016

Underground Labourer Quarry Pte 37794 Leicestershire Regt. b 1890 Bakewell. 1911C at Over Haddon, brother of Edward, George Thomas and Percy Bosworth, their mother was Elizabeth Ann Hickinson, b1862 Hathersage and 1871C living at The Dale, Hathersage. Their father was George Thomas Hayto, b c1853 Derby, but was dead before the 1911C.

✟ ≠ Underground Labourer Pte 17446 10 Bn N & D, presumed dead 14/2/1916. Remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, and on the Bakewell War Memorial. b 1892 Bakewell, 1911C at Over Haddon, brother of Edward, Herbert and Percy Bosworth, their mother was Elizabeth Ann Hickinson, b1862 Hathersage and 1871C living at The Dale, Hathersage. Their father was George Thomas Hayto, b c1853 Derby, but was dead before the 1911C.

Pte 61984 4 Bn Lincolnshire Regt. b 1898 Over Haddon, brother of George Thomas, Herbert and Percy Bosworth, their mother was Elizabeth Ann Hickinson, b1862 Hathersage, and 1871C living at The Dale, Hathersage. Their father was George Thomas Hayto, b c1853 Derby, but was dead before the 1911C.

L/Cpl R.F.A. No other military record found, (other than DC 24/8/1918; ‘after a brief leave at Hathersage, he returned on Friday’).   b 1876 Lockington, Leicestershire (though the family lived in Castle Donnington) 1911C living at Mayfield Apartments, Hathersage, a bank clerk.

✟ Щ 71056 Pte Royal Fusiliers, posted to 2/2 Bn London Regt., and Trooper 13 Royal Hussars.  Arrived in France 2/10/1917, shot in the throat and died from his injuries on 26/10/1917 age 22. Memorial Tyne-Cot, Passchendale, Belgium. Panels 28-30.

He also appears on Hope Memorial.  b 1895 Eyam Woodlands. 1901C at Fall Cliffe Cottage, (Grindleford Road) with his father’s sister-in-law; Janet M Outram (16) b Froggatt Edge. 1911C Living at Mount Pleasant Farm, Highlow with parents James & Fanny (and sister Fanny b 1894 Eyam Woodlands) who became Mrs Roche of 5 Back Lane, Hathersage.

ă  37743, Pte 25 Northumberland Fusiliers. Transferred to a Labour Corp after being gassed. b 1897 Onibury, Shropshire. A labourer and adopted son of Agnes Bowen. 1918 Absent Voters address given as 12 The Hill, Outseats.

ß ă Щ (Shown as Frank in various records, on the Bible Class Board and in WHW2W).  214431 L/Cpl  A Res Coy. Sp Brigade R.E.  b 1886 Gloucester. 1911C  a boarder at 2 Station Cottages, Padley, a stationary engineman, married to Elizabeth (née Wiggett), b1892 Hathersage. 1918 his Absent Voters address; School Road, Hathersage.

✟ ≠ 13624 Pte 6 East Yorkshire Regt. He enlisted 16/10/1914 in Sheffield. In July 1915 he was posted to the Balkans, where he stayed 12 months. Afterwards he was in France. In his service record is a note that information had been received by Mrs James Harling, Steeple House, Eyam, through the agency of the Red Cross at Geneva, relating of her husband, who had been missing since March 23rd last. The letter reads as follows:- “we are grieved to inform you that the following report appears in an official German ‘list of the dead’ despatched from Berlin, July 1st 1918: ‘Harling J., 13624, 6th East Yorks, was killed and buried in a common grave 400 metres before the entrance of the village of Vraignes on the right side of the way. Date unknown”.

He was later reburied in Hancourt British Cemetery, France. (DC 5/10/1918, ‘One of the early volunteers, took part in Dardanelles Expedition. Reported missing last March, now confirmed KIA 29/3/1918’).  He left a widow and one child. He was formerly in the employ of Messrs West and Son, boot manufacturers, Eyam. He is also commemorated on Eyam Memorial.  b 1886 Sheffield, 1911C at Burch Place, Eyam and in the shoe trade. Brother in law to Joe Wilson, b Hathersage, as he married Joe’s sister Sarah, b Hathersage, on 30/12/1908. James’ death was reported on the same day as Joe’s, see below.

53794 Pte 21 Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regt. Later 580337 Leicestershire Regt and 46075 Labour Corps.  b 1878 Sheffield. 1901C was in HMP Wakefield, convicted of wilful damage to an oil painting??    1911C, a joiner, recently moved to The Dale, Hathersage.

T/330315 Dvr R.A.S.C.  b 1884 Horsforth, Leeds. 1911C, living at Station Road, Hathersage, a purifier at a flour mill. (Arthur Mann boarded at the same address, see below)